3Tera is the fourth recent acquisition by CA who have also bought Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore.
Islandia, New York, USA. 26 February, 2010 – CA, Inc. has agreed to acquire privately-held 3Tera®, Inc., a pioneer in cloud computing. According to CA, 3Tera's AppLogic® offers an innovative solution for building cloud services and deploying complex enterprise class applications to public and private clouds using an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI). Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
The addition of 3Tera to CA's other recent acquisitions – Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore – will reportedly help the company to aggressively expand its portfolio of systems to manage cloud computing.
3Tera enables enterprises and service providers to provision, deploy and scale public and private cloud computing environments while maintaining full control, flexibility and reliability. 3Tera also makes it easy for service providers to offer application stacks on demand by adding applications to the AppLogic catalogue, where they can be deployed to a low cost, shared cloud infrastructure. 3Tera's customers include more than 80 enterprises and service providers globally.
"CIOs can use cloud computing to build and manage a new type of IT supply chain‚ across today's virtualised internal and external technology infrastructure," said Chris O‚Malley, Executive Vice President of CA's Cloud Products & Solutions Business Line. "3Tera technology is a powerful addition to the total solution CA provides for optimising these high value supply chains – from the mainframe to the cloud."
Using the intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) and drawing from a catalogue of pre-configured virtual server and software components, AppLogic simplifies the design and deployment of composite applications as a single logical entity in the cloud. By unifying application configuration, application deployment, and a virtual server fabric – functions that are otherwise typically performed in a fragmented manner – AppLogic helps reduce costs, improve productivity and increase service quality.
"3Tera eliminates the manual, error-prone tasks that have historically hampered an organisation‚s ability to deploy IT services to the cloud," said Barry X Lynn, CEO of 3Tera. "As part of CA, we can bring rapid and simple cloud enablement to a dramatically larger group of customers, leveraging the thousands of CA sales, services and support professionals."
In addition to AppLogic, 3Tera provides a cloud computing marketplace that allows software vendors to provide developers with production-ready cloud components and full applications that are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. This facilitates exchanges of value between developers, service providers and customers.
